Venus is the second planet from Sun & it is named after Roman goddess of love and beauty.   Venus is 109 million kilometer away from Sun and possible opposition distance between earth and Venus is 38 million kilometer which is any closed planet to earth.   Farthest ever Venus gets from earth is 261 million kilometer. Light takes 2 minutes and 13 seconds to travel from Venus to earth.     Venus is also called as Earth's sister planet because of its similar size, mass, proximity to the sun and bulk composition.   Atmospheric pressure at planet’s surface is 92 times that of earth or roughly pressure found is 900 meter under ocean water on earth. Venus is by far the hottest planet in the solar system with a mean surface temperature of 462 degree Celsius which is enough to melt anything.   Venus is surrounded by an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid preventing its surface from being seen from space in visible light.    It may have had water oceans in t...
 
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